STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-02-06

CONTENT

General:

• Added Ancient card rarity
• Deprecated Legendary card rarity

Ironclad:

• Reworked Pact’s End card
• Deprecated cards:

- Ghostly Armor

- Winged Jump

- Juggernaut

Silent:

• Reworked Memento Mori card
• Deprecated Adaptation card

Necrobinder:

• Added new Neurosurge card
• Deprecated cards:

- Guillotine

- You Are Mine

Regent:

• Added new Big Bang card
• Reworked cards:

- Heavenly Drill

- The Smith

Colorless Cards:

• Added new cards:

- Automation

- Calamity

- Catastrophe

- Earthquake

- Entropy

- Fisticuffs

- Jackpot

- Order

- Rend

- Prep Time

- Prowess

- Rolling Boulder

- Scrawl

- Splash

- Ultimate Defend

- Stratagem

• Reworked Contractility card

Enemies:

• Added new Act 1 enemy, the Slithering Strangler
• Added Entangled affliction for Vine Shambler
• Added Galvanic affliction for Globe Head
• Added Scrutiny affliction for Owl Magistrate
• Deprecated Test Subject’s Mutating Ichor card

Ancients:

• Added Darv cards
• Deprecated Zlatir’s Cursed Blood card
• Deprecated Pael’s Flesh relic

Ascensions:

• Ascension 8 now also decreases potion frequency

BALANCE

Ironclad:

• Nerfed Bully card: scaling damage decreased from 2(3) -> 1(2)
• Nerfed Dismantle card: upgrade damage decreased from 4 -> 3
• Changed Dominate card:

- Cost increased from 1 -> 2

- Upgrade changed from deal damage to all enemies -> decrease cost by 1

• Changed Fight Me card: upgrade now also increases player Strength gain by 1
• Changed Limit Break card: rarity changed from Rare -> Ancient
• Changed Molten Fist card: now Exhausts
• Changed Ashen Strike card: now highlights the correct number in green when you have Strength
• Changed Shockwave card: is now Colorless

Silent:

• Changed Accelerant card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Nerfed Delay card:

- Block decreased from 11(15) Block -> 11(13)

- Energy decreased from 2(2) -> 1(2)

• Buffed Fan Of Knives card: Shivs increased from 3(4) -> 4(5)
• Changed Shadowmeld card:

- Cost increased from 0 -> 1

- Upgrade changed from triple Block -> decrease cost to 0

• Nerfed Snakebite card: Poison decreased from 4(5) -> 3(4)
• Changed Execution card:

- Cost increased from 2 -> 3

- Rarity changed to Rare

• Changed Corrosive Wave card:

- No longer Exhausts

- Rarity changed to Rare

Necrobinder:

• Nerfed Enfeebling Touch card: Strength loss decreased from 9(13) -> 8(11)
• Changed Forever Young card:

- No longer has Retain by default

- Upgrade changed from additional cards -> grants Retain

• Changed Sacrifice card:

- Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1

- Upgrade changed from triple Block -> decrease cost to 0

Regent:

• Nerfed Descisions, Descisions card:

- Card draw decreased from 5 -> 3(5)

- Repeated play amount decreased from 3(4) -> 3

• Changed GUARDS!! card:

- No longer transforms entire hand, but allows you to select which cards are transformed

- Minion Sacrifice card’s Block slightly nerfed as a result: Block decreased from 13(17) -> 11(14)

• Nerfed Heirloom Hammer card: upgrade damage decreased from +6 -> +4
• Changed Neutron Aegis card: Energy cost increased from 0 -> 1 (in addition to Star cost)
• Buffed Perfect Reflection card: Block increased from 8(11) -> 9(12)
• Nerfed Quasar card: no longer sets the created cards’ cost to 0
• Changed Shiny Strike card: upgrade now decreases the cost of 1 -> 2 colorless cards

Colorless Cards:

• Changed Bolas card: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Mayhem card:

- Rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare

- Now triggers before card draw

• Buffed Mind Blast card: cost decreased from 2(1) -> 1(0)
• Buffed Thrumming Hatchet card:

- Damage increased by 1

- Rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon

• Buffed Ultimate Strike card: damage increased from 12 -> 14
• Changed Enlightenment card: now Exhausts
• Changed Fasten card: upgrade Block decreased from +3 -> +2
• Changed Hand Trick card: upgrade Block increased from +2 -> +3
• Changed Restlessness card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Hungering Portrait relic: now triggers before you draw your hand on your turn
• Changed Kunai relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Shuriken relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Prismatic Shard relic: no longer gives Colorless cards
• Buffed Screaming Flagon relic: Strength gain increased from 1 -> 2

Enemies:

• Enemies with Plating like Frog Knight now start with Block equal to their plating, similar to Slumbering Beetle
• Nerfed Axebots: Strength gain decreased from 5 -> 4
• Changed Bowlbugs:

- No longer apply Frail

- Silk Bowlbug now applies 1 Weak

- Egg Bowlbug no longer applies debuffs, but attacks and gains Block

• Buffed Fogmog: increased HP
• Changed Fuzzy Wurm Crawler: HP ascension modifier lowered from +5 -> +2
• Changed Inklet: changed moveset so fight is now less random
• Changed Magi Knight: changed moveset
• Changed Myte:

- Changed moveset

- Strength gain decreased from 5 -> 3(4)

• Changed Swarm of Slimes encounter: now has one less small Slime

Ancients:

• Changed Zlatir’s Ruby Earrings blessing: “All combat card rewards contain one card of each Rarity”

Events:

• Changed Battleworn Dummy event: no longer appears in multiplayer
• Changed Tinker Time event: Mad Science card default cost increased from 1 -> 2; base damage and block values are changed accordingly

ART

• Added beta portrait art for many cards
• Added portrait art for the Regent cards: Beat into Shape, Guiding Star, Shiny Strike, Spoils of Battle, and re-added Decree of Unmaking
• Made Burrowing Bug’s chomp animation snappier
• Cleaned up Spiny Toad’s lick animation
• Added projectile to Myte’s toxic attack
• Made Kin Priest’s grenade explosion bigger

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

• Adjusted relic size in top bar and on merchant shop screen
• Begone card no longer shows a misleading Transform hovertip
• Other players' HP and powers are now displayed when hovered over in multiplayer
• Lethality power no longer flashes when it increases damage
• Made hand card counter label larger
• Multiplayer player display shows your local player too
• Incomplete room history in map no longer shows when still on that node
• Parry card now includes a hovertip for the Forge keyword
• Restlessness card now glows gold if it is the only card in your hand
• When showing card removal screen, only curses are moved to the top, the order of everything else is preserved
• You can now see other players' energy and card count in multiplayer

- Improved map algorithm legibility

WORDING

• Added a missing comma to Dodge and Roll card's description
• Aggression card now specifies that the upgrade lasts for the rest of combat
• Fixed some whitespace and coloring issues in Lethality power's hovertip
• Glass Knife card’s wording has been tweaked to be more consistent with other effects that modify a card's damage
• Lethality power's hovertip coloring has been fixed
• Tinker Time event's Speed option now properly mentions that it adds Innate if you're creating a power card

BUG FIXES

Ironclad:

• Breakthrough card attack animation no longer plays if the player is dead
• Viewing an upgrade preview of Primal Force+ card in the deck view now properly shows a hovertip for Giant Rock+ card

Regent:

• Kingly Punch's damage increase is no longer reset when the card is downgraded

Colorless Cards:

• Mind Blast is now properly marked as an Uncommon colorless card instead of an Event card

Potions & Relics:

• Darleejing Tea relic no longer shows an Energy hovertip
• Ghost Seed relic now works properly between save/reload
• Hungering Belly and Severed Gill relics now appear in the Relic Collection screen
• Starter Flare relic no longer triggers before Slumbering Beetle gains block

Enemies:

• Cubex Construct charging SFX no longer loops forever if it is killed by Guillotine
• Quitting during the Soul Nexus fight no longer softlocks the next session

Ancients:

• Fixed Orobas’ Discovery relic loc in run history
• Fixed typo in Orobas’ name
• Selecting Orobas’ Transcend blessing now maintains the card's upgrade state
• Neow’s Silver Crucible relic no longer goes into the negatives

Ascension:

• Players can no longer break ascension limit by swapping characters in the character select screen

Multiplayer:

• Backing out of a multiplayer lobby while locked in, then going back into a lobby, no longer locks you out of selecting another character
• Fixed weird spacing in remote player indicator when rejoining lobby
• Fixed a multiplayer divergence related to Poison and reward timing
• Fixed multiplayer state divergence caused by The Trial event
• Forgotten Ritual card only counts cards exhausted by you in multiplayer
• Fixed hitbox for Regent’s top right constellation hover effect in multiplayer screen
• Decree of Stasis card now only applies to player who owns it
• Seal of Gold relic no longer prevents other players from gaining gold
• Supermassive card no longer counts cards created by other players
• Unrelenting card's "next attack is free" effect now only applies to the player who played it
• Joining/quitting/joining an MP game should no longer result in an immediate divergence
• Players display fades out when opening settings and compendium in multiplayer
• Multiplayer combat no longer pauses if one player is looking at their deck
• Fixed multiplayer save/load
• Playing Survivor card no longer cancels card drag for other players
• Reattach and Adaptable powers now scale with players in multiplayer
• Remote player's Osty's healthbar no longer reappears when it revives
• Sneaky Strike card only counts cards discarded by player who owns it
• Spoils Map now marks the same map point for everyone
• Stone of All Time and Future of Potions events no longer break multiplayer
• The Trial event portrait no longer switches when remote players choose an option

Misc:

• Fixed boss map node from always being hoverable
• Fixed targeting issue when switching between two enemies
• Ironclad button cannot be reclicked on when opening up main menu for the first time
• Patch notes typo fixed
• Duplicate potions can no longer appear in shop